>>39898413>Most of the thoughts people seem to have are whether they stack up to 'gender norms', or even worse, media portrayals of ideal masc/femininity,I did tho. I am the world's leading expert on pretending to be a man. NOBODY suspected me.
But something was wrong, it was harder for me than everyone else. Everyone else just followed their core drives and progressed through life's milestones naturally, I had to struggle with each one as they got successively harder the more I failed. I was gifted, both physically and intellectually (though my parents did everything they could to squander that), so there's no reason I shouldn't have been the chad I saw on TV, so I kept doing it and eventually the stress of that started making me sick.
Being a woman on the other hand is so easy to me. I want a boyfriend so I make myself available to single dudes and let them chat me up - easy. I want a job so I do a bunch of self-reflection on who I am as a person and then self-actualize into the career I feel most confident with. Everything got easy, almost overnight. And while the developmental milestones of transition are not the same as a natural cishet progression, they are there, and I've been knocking them down ahead of what my envisioned schedule was with ease. It not that being a woman is easy, on paper what I'm doing is really challenging, it's that now I don't have to fight my natural instincts I can just let my succeed in being a functional human person of the female gender.
JFC I had to verify my email. This is getting ridiculous.
